The Divine Command theory deals with the moral question whether what is right and wrong depends on what moral principles we accept or on what God commands us to do. The Divine Command theory says that the moral standards are based on the commands of God.
The argument against the Divine Command theory is formulated like this. Acts cannot be right because God commands you to do them because: a) this would make God’s own goodness mysterious, b) any act could be right if God commanded you to do it, and c) if God’s commands are not mere whims, then his commands are redundant as we already share His reasons.
The argument for the Divine Command theory in this paper is formulated like this. Acts are right because God commands you to do them because: a) the good character of God is expressed in his commands given to us, thus they are not arbitrary, b) acts are right or wrong based on what the perfectly good God commands, thus the standard of right and wrong is not independent of God’s command, therefore c) the Divine Command theory does not fail.